For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food.… — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously… — James Carlton Copy Share Image
Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Humans have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs for thousands of years. The yoga tradition, which started at least… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
No leader or organization can achieve breakout growth until it treats, "we've always done it this way" as an opportunity to think… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Dawes is a rock 'n' roll band playing guitars, writing songs, working in a certain tradition. Through our attitude and personality, I… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
“…religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can’t be purchased like a burger or a… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
“Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan…now enter Maia Sharp. — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image